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Are you developing your design career?

There is a sudden, surprising upsurge in the number of designers extolling the value of code. That’s not to say that designers are arbitrarily acknowledging the beauty of a well-formed operator overload in C++. No, they’re clamouring for courseware for front-end development. Designers want to be developers.

Some lovely code

Tim Caynes

Categories: Design | UX Design

Where’s the X in UX?

There is lots of F: functionality that is. So much so I am wondering if we should rename UX UF, as in User Functionality. Not that there is anything wrong with the F word. It’s great when you have an intuitive online journey. But to my mind that is only half the story. It strikes me that there isn’t enough X in UX.

A to B is just F

Christian Barnett

Categories: Creativity | Customer experience | UX Design

Get personal with personas

Persona development can be contradictory. We use personas to validate and stress-test user journeys, scenarios, navigation models and so on, but we often don’t stress-test the personas themselves to see if they withstand scrutiny.

 

A sketch of a persona

Tim Caynes

Categories: User-centered design | UX Design